A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Caucete in Argentina. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:37:13 / 2:37 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us10007v79. Unique identifier: us10007v79. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/01/17 / 2017-01-24 17:37:13 / January 24, 2017 @ 5:37 pm. Exact location, longitude -67.483° West, latitude -32.1018° South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Caucete. Nearby country/countries, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Caucete (c. 33 600 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 90 km SE of Caucete, Argentina.
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